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On the origin of leprosy.
Marc Monot, Nadine Honoré, Thierry Garnier, Romulo Araoz, Jean-Yves Coppée, Céline Lacroix, Samba Sow, John S. Spencer, Richard W. Truman,
Diana L. Williams, et al.
To cite this version:
Marc Monot, Nadine Honoré, Thierry Garnier, Romulo Araoz, Jean-Yves Coppée, et al.. On the
origin of leprosy.. Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005, 308 (5724),
pp.1040-2. �10.1126/science/1109759�. �pasteur-00204117�
On the Origin of Leprosy
Marc Monot
1*, Nadine Honoré
1*, Thierry Garnier
1, Romulo Araoz
1, Jean-Yves Coppée
2, Céline Lacroix
2, Samba Sow
3, John S. Spencer
4, Richard W. Truman
5, Diana L.
Williams
5, Robert Gelber
6, Marcos Virmond
7, Béatrice Flageul
8, Sang-Nae Cho
9, Baohong Ji
10, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi
11, Jacinto Convit
11, Saroj Young
12, Paul E.
Fine
12, Voahangy Rasolofo
13, Patrick J. Brennan
4, and Stewart T. Cole
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Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Bactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
2
PF2, Génopole, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
3
Centre National d'Appuis à la lutte Contre la Maladie, Bamako, Mali
4
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1682, USA
5
National Hansen’s Disease Program, DHHS/HRSA/BPHC, Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, Lousiana 70894, USA
6
Leonard Wood Memorial Center for Leprosy Research, Cebu, Philippines
7
Instituto "Lauro de Souza Lima", Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil
8
Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
9
Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
10
Bactériologie-Hygiène, Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
11
Instituto de Biomedicina, Caracas, Venezuela
12
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
13
Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar
* These authors contributed equally.
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